AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22744, 3 December 1935, Page 9

AVIATION

THE MISSING FLYERS PARTIES STILL SEARCHING (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, December 2. Mr R. A. Parkhill has received advice from Singapore that plane and ground parties are continuing the search for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. “SCOTTY” ALLEN’S, OPINION BRISBANE, December 2. “ Scotty ” Allen, who flew more than 3000 miles in the search for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr Pethybridge, arrived at Longreach (Queensland) with the mail. He said that he was convinced that the flyers had perished. AIR MAIL SERVICE CANADA TO IRELAND OTTAWA, December 1. (Received Dec. 2, at 10 p.m.) It is understood that Canada recommended to the Imperial Transatlantic Airway Conference the establishment of an air mail service between Canada and Ireland, via Newfoundland, using North Sydney, Nova Scotia, as the Canadian terminus and Harbour Grace as an intermediate stop at Newfoundland. Canadian experts who have examined three possible projects for a transatlantic airway linking Canada and Britain are said to have decided some time ago that the route followed by Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Brown when they flew the Atlantic in 1919 would be the most feasible. It is said that a chain of Canadian airports and emergency landing fields is being constructed from coast to coast on the presumption that North Sydney would be the Canadian terminus. Other routes considered were via Bermuda and via Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. It is understood that a method of combating the menace of freezing atmospheric vapour, causing ice on the wings, is being considered by the Canadian Government with hopes that it will he evolved this winter. It is believed that the method" being considered is to divert the engine exhaust along the wing edge, whence vapours will escape in a hot film over the wing surface.